CIRCA 1754, INCISED SCRIPT F N

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A FÜRSTENBERG FIGURE OF HARLEQUINE
CIRCA 1754, INCISED SCRIPT f N
Modelled by Simon Feilner, in a coquettish pose with a twisted body and her right hand on her hip, holding a slap-stick in her left hand, a small feathered turquoise tricorn hat tilted on her head, wearing a ruff around her neck and a turquoise chequered jacket with red and white lozenges, her red and purple bodice with a blue bow, her skirt with a broad scalloped puce-scale upper part suspending trailing flowers above a turqouise hem, her red shoes with blue bows, standing by a tree-stump on an incised shaped mound base (right arm and head restuck with associated restoration around chin, ruff and bow tying hair, broken through waist and restored, restoration to slap-stick, hat and hands, chipping to hems of bodice and skirt, slight areas of flaking to enamels, some with slight over-painting, base with firing cracks and chipping to edge)
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 10th October 1961, lot 646 (£480 to Chester)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.

Literature

Robert Schmidt, Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm (Munich, 1953), p. 141, no. 179, and col. pl. 53.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Paper label printed with 135 attached to underside of base.

Another example is in the Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum, Brunswick.

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